Athletes Eating Disorder

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” –Simone De Beauvoir. In today’s world, we are constantly being pressured to be a certain way, maintain a certain look, be a certain weight etc. and all these contribute to maintaining a “perfect image” in the society. We are living in a society where constant boundaries are being laid upon us and most of the times the people who get affected are in the spotlight as most of the people around focus on them. One of the groups who get deeply affected by these are athletes. Athletes are groups of people who are involved in sports which require one to have physical strength and stamina. Most of the times we believe that getting involved in sports helps increase body strength, body stability and helps to keep us fit and in shape. What we don't realize is that its these very sports that sometimes tend to drive someone to get an eating disorder either to

The sad thing about it is that it’s very hard to spot an athlete who is suffering from an eating disorder because most of the signs will include excessive exercise and rapid weight loss. These signs are mostly referred to as an athlete trying to develop a good rapid shape rather than athlete who is falling prey to an eating disorder. The athlete’s problem becomes evident when their performance goes down. Eating disorders that are faced by athletes are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, orthorexia and bigorexia.

One of the major eating disorders that an athlete might face would be bigorexia. Bigorexia is a “disorder which causes someone to see themselves as small, despite actually being big and muscular” (Osbourne). Many sports such as wrestling, kickboxing, soccer,